This policy brief examines the latest developments in the EU-Mercosur economic relationship and outlines the existing non-economic relationship in order to contextualise the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement and its potential for strengthening common bonds between both regions.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Investment Fund (EIF) have been key partners in implementing the Juncker Plan (EFSI) (2015-2020), which aims to increase lending to economically or socially valuable projects too risky to receive private finance through leveraging scarce budgetary...

The diversity of the labour market in the Visegrad Group countries is presented in the article from an institutional perspective. Institutions such as different tax and transfer policies, employment protection legislation, or active and passive labour market policies can affect not only the...

This paper provides a short country-by-country harmonised analysis - using EUROMOD - of the distributional effects on household disposable income of direct tax and cash benefit policy changes between 2018 and 2019. It is the latest in this series of reports, available as EUROMOD working papers,...

Ende März 2022 veröffentlichte die Europäische Kommission ihre neue EU-Strategie für nachhaltige und zirkuläre Textilien. Die ambitionierte Vision: Textilabfälle sollen reduziert, zirkuläre Maßnahmen gefördert und negative Umweltfolgen der Textilindustrie minimiert werden. Doch wie...